Sunspots could be seen by the Soho telescope in 2001 in the left photo, but not this year in the right photo.

ATTENTION... ATTENTION... THE FOLLOWING IS AN OFFICIAL XTNYODA MORON REPORT!!!

OK... I shouldn't be quite so harsh on this one as the real problem is "spiritual blindness and arrogance" as opposed to true "moron" status.

The thing about the idea that humans can somehow "control" something in nature as huge as the world's climate is... well... spiritually arrogant.

Remember the tower of Babel in the book of Genesis? The judgment point of God that set up the divisions in humanity goes like this...

"Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth." Genesis 11:4

The issue was that humanity came to the delusion that they could control their circumstances, control their environment... and God said, "Hold on just a minute."

Same thing today. For governments to be declaring that we can somehow control climate is to put ourselves in the place of God... a thing God is not very fond of.

Sooo... God is strutting His stuff. God has dampened the sun just to show the human race that God is God... and mankind is not.

Now that is what is going on that is baffling astronomers... and politicians...

BBC
'QUIET SUN' BAFFLING ASTRONOMERS

The Sun is the dimmest it has been for nearly a century.

There are no sunspots, very few solar flares - and our nearest star is the quietest it has been for a very long time.

The observations are baffling astronomers, who are due to study new pictures of the Sun, taken from space, at the UK National Astronomy Meeting.

The Sun normally undergoes an 11-year cycle of activity. At its peak, it has a tumultuous boiling atmosphere that spits out flares and planet-sized chunks of super-hot gas. This is followed by a calmer period.

Last year, it was expected that it would have been hotting up after a quiet spell. But instead it hit a 50-year year low in solar wind pressure, a 55-year low in radio emissions, and a 100-year low in sunspot activity.

According to Prof Louise Hara of University College London, it is unclear why this is happening or when the Sun is likely to become more active again.

"There's no sign of us coming out of it yet," she told BBC News....